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My wife and I are birders. We have always had numerous bird-feeders wherever we lived. A constant problem has been birds flying into our windows and getting injured or killed. This often happens when something frightens them off of the many feeders or just during normal flying back and forth. We tried everything over the years, decals, strings of feathers, etc. with no success. The problem was exacerbated when we converted our deck into a sun room. This created a "wall" of glass 20 feet long by 7 feet high facing the feeders. It reflected the woods surrounding us so well that it looked like more woods to the birds. The number of window-kills increased. I therefore decided that I had to find a solution. It became obvious that the only solution would be a physical barrier between the birds and the window. I noticed that birds that hit the window screens in front of the window portions of the sun room usually bounced off with no apparent ill effects. I therefore decided to put screens over the other glass portions. ...